Load Balancers

On-demand, scalable traffic management

Rapid spikes in online traffic can challenge even the best web sites and applications. During online sales events, even a brief outage can cost you thousands of customers.

Cloud Load Balancers manage online traffic by distributing workloads across multiple servers and resources—automatically or on demand. They maximize your workload performance and help prevent overload to help give your users a seamless experience.

Starting at $0.015/hr

High availability without a long-term contract

Dedicated IP address

Each load balancer is assigned an IP address that remains static while the load balancer is in use.

Supports SSL termination

Offloads public key encryption and decryption, and provides HTTP to HTTPS redirect to help secure transactions.

Built-in high availability

Everything we do is managed cloud. With managed cloud, our experts can run your cloud ops for you, or be there whenever you need help—you choose the level of service you want. When you choose a Managed Operations service level, we'll create, configure, troubleshoot, monitor, and delete load balancers, and configure SSL termination and traffic management algorithms based on your site's traffic patterns and performance, so your customers always get the experience they expect. See everything you get with managed cloud.

Advanced algorithms

Route traffic to backend nodes in the most optimal way for your app. Support includes round-robin, weighted round-robin, least connections, weighted least connections, and random.

Full-featured API

Use a RESTful web service interface to perform tasks like creating and removing load balancers, adding servers to a pool, or removing servers from a pool.

Health checks

Pricing

Get high availability without committing to a long-term contract. We charge for each Cloud Load Balancer instance by the hour, plus concurrent connections. Then we add bandwidth charges starting at $0.12 per outgoing GB. We don't charge for incoming bandwidth.

Per instance with ssl — Billed at $0.05/hr, metered in one-minute increments

100 Concurrent connections — Billed at $0.00015 per hour for each connection (equivalent to $0.015 per hour for 1000 concurrent connections), based on average utilization sampled every 5 minutes

Bandwidth

Outgoing —Outgoing bandwidth usage for Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, Cloud Load Balancers, and Cloud Big Data is aggregated per account across all US regions. Tiered pricing applies to your total usage, so you pay less per GB the more you use.

We are able to focus on what we do best and let Rackspace take care of the infrastructure, because the team at Rackspace has a deeper understanding of the Windows Server OS than any other hosting company I’ve seen.